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Indigenous Peoples Nuclear Free Future Day
August 8, 2017 @ 3:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT
Sponsored by the Buffalo History Museum, Indigenous Women’s Initiatives, and the WNY Peace Center. At the Buffalo History Museum, One Museum Court (Elmwood just past R#198). Special guests, including singers Joann Shenandoah and Darelynn Spruce, Congressman Brian Higgins, and more; with Interfaith Service leading to Japanese lantern ceremony (Toro Nagashi).
We’ll be celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Declaration of Rights of Indigenous People; have special guests – Indigenous speakers and musicians – throughout the event; speak about the Solid and Liquid Nuclear Waste being transported over our bridges and byways; and at dusk will hold a Japanese lantern ceremony – Toro Nagashi – remembering victims of Nuclear weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.